St. Joseph's Industrial School

Built in 1896 (Renaissance Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Joseph's Industrial School is a historic former Black Catholic school and historic district in Clayton, Kent County, Delaware. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Industrial School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 2002 · category: District · built in 1896, Renaissance Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 3 objectss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 355 W. Duck Creek Rd., Clayton, 19938
When was it listed? December 2002
Category. district
Census division. Smyrna
When was it built? 1896
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 02001491 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Industrial School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hoskinson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent County

Storms near this property

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayton, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	1 hurt, $200,000	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$40,000	A tree was blown down onto a house in the Clayton Courts Neighborhood.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm tore down a couple of trees in Clayton, one of which damaged a home.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	Several large trees and power lines were blown down around Clayton.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	Several reports of trees and power lines down in Clayton. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	Several reports of downed trees and wires near Millington Rd. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	Trees and wires were downed near and south of Clayton. Time estimated from radar.
August 2017	Flood	Clayton	-	Water reported over the road on Mount Friendship road.
July 2017	Heavy Rain	Clayton	-	Daily rainfall from the 6th.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	A few downed trees due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2011	Hail	Clayton	-	Nickel size hail fell from a thunderstorm in Clayton.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down poles across a roadway in Clayton.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Clayton	-	Thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused field, poor drainage and small stream flooding in northwestern Kent County in and around Kenton Hundred. Doppler Radar storm total estimates averaged between 3 and 4 inches, most of which fell within one hour.
June 2009	Hail	Clayton	-	Penny to nickel size hail fell in Clayton. Hail covered the ground so extensively, that some of it was still around the next morning.
September 2009	Heavy Rain	Clayton	-	Showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain caused some poor drainage flooding in Kent County. Roadway flooding was reported in Clayton along Peach Alley and Wilson Street. Event precipitation totals included 3.79 inches in Dover and 3.54 inches in West Dover Hundred.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in Clayton.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a couple of trees and wires in Clayton.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clayton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kent County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Clayton Railroad Station	0.3 miles	1986
Byrd's AME Church	0.5 miles	1982
Bannister Hall and Baynard House	0.9 miles	1973
Thomas Davis House	1.2 miles	1983
Moore House	1.2 miles	1982
Duck Creek Village	1.3 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001491 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 136 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.